May01_2008

Botanical Glossary - Home - References Cited

From the 15th floor of the Delta Bow Valley Hotel (Room 1507) at the scenes of Calgary morning traffic rushing by outside - last minute observations before we have to leave for the airport for an afternoon flight back to Vancouver, BC.

Photos - L-R - Looking South along 1st Street SE toward the Calgary Tower with the Hyatt Hotel just to the right of the tower.

Looking toward the Calgary Board of Education Building at 515 Macleod Trail S.E. where the Family of Man Sculpture resides in the park bordering 1st street. The building with a copper roofed tower at top right is the Calgary Firehall #1: Located at 140 6th avenue SE.

Photos - L-R - More observations from the fifteenth floor of the Bow Valley Delta Hotel - Looking south along 1st street toward Calgary Tower from room 1507 - crossings at 6th avenue SE and 7th avenue SE.

A closer view of the Fire Hall Number 1 tower with the copper, which's hat roof. In 1885 the Calgary Fire Brigade was formed. 1897 marked the appointment of James “Cappy” Smart as the chief and first full-time paid employee of the Calgary Fire Department. A legend in his own time, Cappy Smart was credited by many in the North -West with being one of the two forces – the other being the arrival of the CPR – that transformed Calgary into a modern city. Smart led the call for a more appropriate hall, and this 1911 red brick building is the result. Classical in styling, the firehall has a central pediment, a side tower with a bell and copper cupola, and arched fire truck doors.

Transit Bus #7835 - This is a 2003 New Flyer Bus model D40LF with Cummins ISC engine and a 5 speed Allison transmission B400R5 traveling along 5th avenue SE.

Photos - Frames left and center: Calgary Tower with the Hyatt Hotel at right. The Calgary Tower is a 191 meters (627 ft) free standing observation tower in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The tower was built at a cost of $3,500,000, and was a joint venture between Marathon Realty Company Limited and Husky Oil. The landmark was intended as urban renewal program for Canada's Centennial. It opened to the public on June 30, 1968.

Frame right: North West Travellers Building 515 – 1 Street SE. In 1913 this building was originally built to house commercial travellers offices, sample rooms and the Commercial Club. Additional tenants included both Federal and Provincial Departments. By 1926 the major tenant was the Calgary School Board’s Commercial High School and the Calgary Public Museum. Then for two years, 1943-1945, the YWCA’s Service Women’s Center occupied the facilities and in 1945 the building was converted to a residential hotel, the Hotel Bliss. By 1948 it was a Salvation Army Social Service Center. Recent restorations have allowed for a variety of commercial tenants.

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